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October 4 | 7:30 PM
FREE and open to the community
Both in-person and virtual tickets available
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Learn about the important work being done locally to address the mental well-being of our community, what work still needs to be done, and how you can help, in this panel discussion featuring Stephen Fried and representatives from local organizations; Jewish Family Services of Tidewater, the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), the Virginia Beach Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team, I Need a Lighthouse, and the VB Strong Center
Meet local organizations working in this field beginning at 7:00 PM
Presented by the Milton "Mickey" Kramer Scholar-in-Residence Fund of the Congregation Beth El Foundation's Tidewater Together series, in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Tidewater.
Stephen Fried is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author who teaches at Columbia University and at the University of Pennsylvania.
Fried is the author of seven acclaimed nonfiction books, including Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time (a New York Times bestseller that was the subject of a PBS documentary); Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (which inspired the Emmy-winning HBO film Gia starring Angelina Jolie); Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (which triggered an FDA inquiry into CNS adverse reactions to antibiotics); The New Rabbi (a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nation’s most powerful houses of worship struggling to choose a new spiritual leader) and a collection of his magazine columns on being a spouse, Husbandry. He is also co-author, with Patrick Kennedy, of the 2015 New York Times bestseller A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction.
Fried has been giving talks to various communities about the challenges of mental illness, substance use disorder, suicide and overdose—and the difficulty talking about them and covering them--since 1984, when he published “Over the Edge,” his first award-winning magazine story about a series of teen suicides in a small Pennsylvania town.
Monday, October 4, 2021 7:30 PM EDT
Monday, October 4, 2021 7:30 PM EDT
Monday, October 4, 2021 7:30 PM EDT
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Meeting ID: 849 7807 0858
Passcode: 094300